The New York Yankees are in the eye of the hurricane.
Aaron Judge and company are already facing the presconfident of a anxious postseason campaign in a year of historic spendment for the organization.
They took a 2-1 series guide over the Kansas City Royals in an ALDS Wednesday night, but they are still a lengthy way from accomplishing the World Series.
Then Hurricane Milton hit Florida.
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This GOES-16 GeoColor saincreateite image consentn at 12:15 p.m. EDT and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (NOAA via AP)
The Yankees own multiple sites in the state of Florida, many of which were in the path of the storm. This participates their spring training site, George M. Steinbrenner Field. The organization evacuated all of its insignificant league take parters from the training site earlier this week, and it was altered into a shelter ahead of the storm’s awaited landdescend for Tampa-based organizational participateees and their families.
Some of the team’s potential take partoff take parters, including veteran commenceer Marcus Stroman and promising reliever Clayton Beeter, were potential call-ups to be back on a potential ALCS roster, and they were in Tampa Tuesday throtriumphg at the spring training intricate before heading for defendedr ground by catching a fairy to New York.
“It’s an unconfident time,” Yankees regulater Aaron Boone tgreater increateers this week “Just have to pray for the best and hope for the defendedty.”
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General regulater Brian Cashman tgreater increateers the team had to shut down its guideional league this week and shiftd its alternate rehab and training site out of the area.
“(Hopefilledy), the injure is minimal, but that’s probably not going to be the case,” Cashman shelp.
The hurricane has already shown strong enough to wreak immense injure on much bigr produceings. The Yankees’ division rival, the Tampa Bay Rays, had the roof ripped off their home stadium, Tropicana Field, by Milton’s triumphds Thursday night. The Rays did not produce the take partoffs this year, however. So, it won’t disturb any postseason MLB games. However, that stadium was also increateedly being participated as a shelter.
A drone image shows the dome of Tropicana Field, which was torn uncover by Hurricane Milton in St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 10, 2024. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
The cgo in of the storm hit 60 miles south of Tampa proximate Sarasota, Florida, and more than 6.5 million Floridians in the Tampa Bay area increateedly were evacuated by Wednesday.
Milton accomplished the west-central coast of Florida at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. When it made landdescend, the hurricane had peak carry oned triumphds of 120 miles per hour. Fox Weather has increateed that at least five people have died. Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has tgreater increateers his state has not examineed any deaths but did not rule out the possibility of casualties.
Multiple Yankees take parters have homes in the area, including Judge, DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres and Austin Wells.
“When you’re in the heat of the take partoffs and everyskinnyg that we’re take parting for, there’s always doses of perspective that come in and do that,” Boone shelp before the team’s 3-2 triumph in Kansas City Wednesday. “Everyone that understands that we have a handful of guys clearly that have places down there or are based there, and it’s an unconfident time.”
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Judge is the enumerateed owner of an $800,000, 2,480-square-foot condo in Tampa Bay that he bought in 2018.
The take parters, including Judge, who has struggled, will have to exposed that unconfidentty for the time being. The Yankees captain will have to recgo in in a opposing environment amid a historicassociate terrible stretch of postseason take part Thursday night.
With an 0-for-4 game that participated another strikeout Wednesday night, Judge took over sole ownion of the highest strikeout rate in MLB postseason history at 34.3%. He has not hit a home run, nor does he have an RBI thcdimiserablemireful the first three games of the series. And he is 1-for-11 with five strikeouts. His postseason batting unretagable dropped to .203 Wednesday.
The Yankees won’t be back home in New York at the earliest until Friday. They take part Game 4 aobtainst the Royals Thursday night with a chance to triumph the series.
Jazz Chisholm Jr., right, of the New York Yankees greets Aaron Judge before Game 3 of a division series aobtainst the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium Oct. 9, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
The Yankees have consentn their series guide via a pair of firm one-run triumphs in Game 1 and Game 3. However, the team has also distake parted multiple vulnerabilities aobtainst a team with a payroll that is less than a third of the Yankees’.
Ace pitcher Gerrit Cole and fellow high-finish commenceer Carlos Rodón had terrible outings in Games 1 and 2. Starting lowstop Anthony Volpe has made multiple costly errors in the first three games that have resulted in Royals runs.
First baseman Anthony Rizzo is also out due to injury this season, leaving backups Oswaldo Cabrera and Jon Berti to hgreater down that position. Neither has been the contrastence producer Rizzo typicassociate is when he’s take parting well.
The team will see to conquer all of those rehires while stressing about potential historic hurricane injure. They are fair one triumph away from accomplishing the ALCS, which they would present for the first time since 2012 if they can loss Kansas City.
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